1957-10-26 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1957.

Dear Prime Minister

THIS IS WHY THE BRITISH PUBLIC DOESN'T ADORE YOU

you've

never

had it so good'

"Aint

gonna be

no war!

They prefer strong

silent people

Your

glamorous cardigana salatcoats remind people of Disraeli (a clever chap who got hoid of the Saws Canal),

and

Your blinding witticiense-

the British don't like

cleverness'...

BUT ABOVE ALL THE BRITISH DISTRUST

KIRCHEROVE HOUSE

THE GARDEN T

THA

TPRIME MINISTER

FICKS BETOGRAMS

AT 3.30PM

Your refaxed manner

10

You reading in bed..

Your enjoyment of

being Prime Minister

The British like statesmen to be carawaTE in the public service ...

Your voluptoome, glamorous hair style reminds people of David Lloyd George (the most terribly clever; Welshman of

them all

MILK

and to have ulcera

of for the sake

the

nation....

Page

Mindy Is Dead

A

By CHRISTOPHER DOBSON

ONE evening about 7 Then once again in the

o'clock I am sitting cinsale American tradition

..

In Mindy's when who should, he married, no, not the como in but Harry the boss's daughter but his Horso, Nicely. Nicely John- alster. a wonderful woman con and Milk Ear Willy.” called Clare Gertner.

That's how Damon Runyon *started a story. But ha wasn't writing about Mindy's but Lindy's. Lindy's of Lindy. "We must open Broadway. Lindy's of Eddie place of our own," she said. Cantor and Mary Pickford It took eight years of and Al Jolson,

scrimping and saving and

It was sho who stirred the fire. of ambition in A

And, yes, Lindy's of the scraping. But they managed beer barons of the Pro it and in 1928 Lindy's open- hibition era. Now Lindy, ed at 1,626 Broadway. blue-eyed Leo Lindemann. It was rough at first. Tho is doad and Broadway customers went mainly for

sandwiches.

mourns.

Lindy's was a classic American success story, a atory that justified the hope

But gradually it changed. Eddie Cantor, then with the

in the eyes of European Ziegfeld Follies, began drop- immigrants as they first saw ping in, Al Jolson, who was the Statue of Liberty at the at the Wintor Garden, turn of the century,

followed. Lindy's quietly

He was born near Berlin became famous. 69 years ago, the son of a Runyon helped by peopl linen pedler. They were ing the fictitious Mindy's poor. Musing once Lindy with his Broadway cele remembered that he was 21 britles. Later the tourists before he ever had a plece came really expecting to of clothing that fitted him- meet Death House Donnigan he had to wear the cast and Gentleman George in offs his father got in barter, the flesh.

After his father died Lindy worked in a delicates

His fame grew, and Lindy became a character in his own right. He became rich enough

sen-sweeping up the floor. to open a new and bigger He came to America four

restaurant. Which Ironically years later and became waiter.

prospered so well that the little old Lindy's began to fade as fame passed It by.

... Throw away your ciger,

pwd that cunning eye behind

dark gianneı

So for heaven's

sake

from out that Vietovision

face and take refuge behind

an honest pipe.

THEN perhap, the British will take you to their heart i

Yours helpfully

Cummings

America Could Have Launched

A Satellite In 1954 ...

—but they kept telling us that it was

not a race, says Maj.-Gen Toftoy

NEW YORK,

TH

At the moment von Braun Is hedged by security restrictions which prevent tim voicing his opinions of America's first space

THE thought of

Russian eyeball circling the earth every 80 minutes has unnerved the American defeat, But he can talk of other man-in-the-street. In the

things-of his novel, Mars bara, cafeterias, taxis and than three years to write," he Project "It has taken more

aubways, it is often re- suys. It deals with a trip to ferred to nervously as "that Mars by 70 passengers aboard

red bomb."

President

10 spaceships.”

Eisenhower's How does it end' "Mars and statement that our satellite carth work out their scientifle programme

has never been problems through mutual aid "

conducted as o rare with other

nations" has proved more chill-

ing thon reassuring.

Many of

:

No scruples

the scientists and military ex-

perts who know most about

KM.

ALAN

BRIEN

reports from

New York

rocket warfure are united in He can talk of how at the nge all odds and Hitler changed hle condemning this as a dumping of 10 he read about space mind. On September 7, 1944, admission.

:

travel: "I realised that here the first exploded on London. was a task worth devoting one's Voo' Braun says that he felt “"s Bitterly outspoken is Major- life to. Not just to staro through genuine regret at this use of his general Nelson Toftoy, Comman- a telescope but to sour through brab.child. · “Our, alm' was to der of the Redstone Arsenal, in the heavens and actually explore blaze a trail to other planeto- Alabama, where America's long- them. I knew how Columbus not to destroy our own ̧” Tange alonile misalicy are hnd felt." planned and ilex-loped. He

After the war the most valu- insists that an American satcl- . Like Columbus, von Braun able spoils for the victors were Ille would be orbiting now "il and his fellow rocketship not money or goods or land we had been allowed to put the fonatles were regarded by the but men. Russia, Britain and components of existing missiles authorities is cranks. But in America competed for Hitler's together and fire them off, We Hiller they found a dreamer rocket and atomic scientists Bald we could do it in 1954. And whose whole success was found- and von Braun was one of the by God we could. But they kept: ed · upon achieving the im»; most glittering prizes, telling us that A was not a possible. The Versailles Treaty

race."

Disappointed

Especially galling to Gentral Toftoy is the fact that his Red-

banned many military weaponis Von Braun still dreams of -but it did not mention rockets, being the architect of man'a Orst trip to the mool-"five days out Why-at-

Says von Braun years after; and five days back, "We felt no moral scruples, Wo tempt it? As Bir Edmund Hillary needed the money and we were said about Everest: because it's interested solely in exploring there."

outer space. Would you blame With the might of America's alone team, "generated and sold. Einstein for Hiroshima? He technology and capital behind the whole idea of the imunediate searched for fundamental truths him, the Russians will have a possibility of earth.satellites and ond his formulae were used for tough competitor. Though the space travel." And the head of the atomic bomb. “ Today Fro President has emphasised) "the his team is the most disappoint- still producing military rocketa non-military character of the ed man in Amerten today: 44–; and sill hoping for spaceships." satellite work," it le difficult to year-old, former Naz!, Y-2 Inventor, Dr Wornher von

Von Broun has grown used to forget that out of von Braun's. Wappointments with politicians optimal Weapon Two.

"non-military" spaceship grew After the invasion of Poland, Von Braun is tall and blond Hitler had a dream that forest. As von Braun 'said in 1948, with the handsome head of a told the fallure of rocket bomb when he wie naked why he icchnicians were preferred the Americans: "My propaganda, Aryan and an bir Von Brauna

Braun.

of restless energy. As well na colled up as infantrymen. ⠀⠀y country has lost two wars in my being mathematician, chemist,

young Hfetime, Next time 1 AL Just in 1948 the Vergel want to be on the winning physicist and engineer, no is also skladivar

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